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Elisabeth R. O’Connell

Assistant Keeper (Curator)

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Elisabeth R. O’Connell is an Assistant Keeper
(Curator) in the Department of Ancient Egypt and Sudan with
responsibility for Roman and Late Antique collections.

She joined the Museum in 2007, having completed a PhD in the
Ancient History and Mediterranean Archaeology Graduate Group at the
University of California, Berkeley, with a dissertation on adaptive
reuse of ancient Egyptian monumental architecture in Late
Antiquity. Her wider research interests include the social history
and material culture of the Roman Empire and Late Antiquity.
Her research engages approaches to the integrated study of ancient
texts and their archaeological contexts.

In addition to research on the collection, Elisabeth co-directed
(with W. V. Davies) the British Museum Expedition to Hagr Edfu
(Egypt) until 2013 and conducts fieldwork at Antinoupolis
(Egypt). She gained previous fieldwork experience at sites in Egypt
and Tunisia.

Online exhibitions

E. R. O’Connell, 'Readers and writers
in Roman Tebtunis,' An online version of an exhibition for the
Center for the Tebtunis Papyri, Doe Library, University of
California, Berkeley (2005, last accessed 2015).

E. R. O’Connell, 'Ethnic identity in
Graeco-Roman Egypt,' An online version of an exhibition for the
Center for the Tebtunis Papyri, Doe Library, University of
California, Berkeley (2004, last accessed 2015).